Pretty interesting article about the Bears saying fuck you to the NFL and it's "Lets watch the kickoff team kick the ball into the back of the endzone 33.8% of the time" rule.
For those who don't know, the NFL, stupidly, changed the placement of the ball for kickoffs to the 35 instead of the 30. So, in the first week of the preseason, out of the 127 kickoffs, 43 of them were touchbacks (most of which, were either kicked out of the back of the endzone or actually through the fuckin' FG uprights).
God, how fuckin' stupid is this rule?
The NFL claims it's for the safety of the players, but take this into account:
Based on the average spot that a NFL team would start on the field in the NFL (the 29.8 or 30 yard line), and then based on the average amount of times the ball was kicked off and resulted in a touchback last year (16.4%) and then the average so far this year (33.8% or basically twice as often), then one gather from that information, that, on average, based on the number of drives in a season a NFL team would have (182), how many of those resulted in scores, and thus kickoffs, (67% of the time, or 122 times), you have a result of an extra 10 yards having to be traveled, on average, 21 extra times per year.
So, on average now, teams will have at least 3 more downs of extra contact from having to travel an extra 20-30 yards a game because of this rule.
How is that causing more safety for players if they are having to work more downs in the game compared to having an extra 2-3 kickoff coverages?
Nevermind the fact that it's eliminating one of the most exciting aspects of football that takes real skill and discipline to perform well at.
I hope the Bears continue to say, fuck you and I hope more teams take to it. The NFL is retarded for instituting such a ridiculous rule.
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Originally Posted by skipwondah33
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